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Men and women may respond differently to danger, a brain scan study suggests.
A team from Krakow, in Poland, used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to assess brain activity when 40 volunteers were shown various images.
Men and women 'respond differently to danger'
Seeded on Sun Nov 29, 2009 11:33 PM EST
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Thats why men are men and women are women, and never the two shall meet.
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#1 - Sun Nov 29, 2009 11:39 PM EST
Opposites attract, right? Of course we are different....we have to be to survive.
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This is so sexist...just kidding. I really like the difference in women. I particularly like it naked.
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If you think never the twain shall meet, you've never been to West Hollywood.
My intuition tells me that there may be a survival value in our different reactions. Some complementarity may be at work here.
Natural selection would dictate that a family in which the male would instinctively face the danger while the female would tend to coral and protect the kids, that family would stand a better survival chance than another whose members would all react the same way.
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#2 - Sun Nov 29, 2009 11:56 PM ESTlol, Karl - could you just imagine if everyone had PMS at the same time....or my God help me! lol
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And man as we know it would cease to exsist.....lol (I think we made our point Karl)lol
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I wonder if occupation and life experiences were factored into this study and if they would make a difference.
As a woman who has worked with livestock most of my life I have been conditioned to meet danger head on -- turning your back or giving ground while working cattle is usually not an option unless you want injured.
I wonder how soldiers (male/female) who have been in combat would test vs civilians who have never actually faced violent/dangerous situations.
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#3 - Mon Nov 30, 2009 12:43 AM ESTI also wonder about that MoCowgirl. I know I keep a really cool head in an emergency.
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We are born pre-programmed to a certain extinct, but a very great deal of our reflexes are adaptive, or learned.
As a matter of fact, the human specie is on top of the list of those who are the most flexible in that respect. We can modify an incredible array of instinctive behaviors. A simple example that comes to mind is our reflex of cushioning our falls by extending our arms. It turns out that this reaction is dangerous, based on our current morphology (it may have been the best for eons before we became bipedal). This instinctive behavior is one of the first things we modify when we learn any martial art where falling is involved.
To conclude, our instinctive behaviors are pre-programmed, but we can use our individual will and judgment to modify them to a certain certain extent in order to maximize their effectiveness. This aptitude seems to be inversely proportional to the degree of evolution of known species.
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All I know is that when there's danger, I'm the one climbing on top of peoples heads and shoulders to get the hell out of there.
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#4 - Mon Nov 30, 2009 7:21 PM ESTYou betcha'!
"My name is Wes and I ain't in this mess." There's nothing but a swirling pool of dust from whence I did stand.
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Shucks, these folk spent a bunch of money to find out something I already knew? Pfeh.
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#5 - Wed Dec 2, 2009 4:30 PM ESTCan you imagine.. you too if you go to the Grants online inside the Government site.. You might be able to receive money for something just as crazy.. and something we already know about... Free money to set up something that will not take you much money.. that you may not have to pay back... not a bad thing...
Do people who use salt .. taste salt on the food they eat?
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There seems to be no end of interesting results from the body imaging equipment. Too bad all the data is still subjective in nature and not nearly complete enough to even begin to tap into the way the human mind works in all its complexity.
We're a long way from understanding our minds...and that's good because I don't want any more marketers trying to treat me as if I'm Pavlov's dogs.....
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